Movies like Hostel
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Hostel (2005)
161K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Iceland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, disturbing, psychological, scary, realistic, gothic, brutal, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
slasher, torture, psychopath, survival, crimes, surgery, captivity, danger, gory, deadly, torment, friends, gore, buddies, tourist, hostel, brutality, blood, confined, dishonesty, missing person, dismemberment, strangulation, destiny, escapades ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
slovakia, europe, amsterdam, iceland
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Most similar movies to Hostel
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, scary and rough films with plots about danger, gory, deadly, slasher, gore, murder and torture mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Hostel: Hostel: Part II (2007), Hostel: Part III (2011), Wrong Turn (2003), Saw III (2006), Eden Lake (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Czech Republic, Italy, Iceland, Slovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Following a geographical tour of Slovakia, three young American women are lured into a hostel by a handsome young man who sells them to the twisted masters, ties them up and brings upon an unthinkable world of pain.
Style:
disturbing, scary, serious, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
slasher, castration, strong sexual content, kidnapping, murder, torture, psychopath, tourist, gory, severed penis, survival, model ...
Time:
contemporary, 2000s
Place:
slovakia, europe, prague, campus
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Set in Las Vegas, the film centers on a man who attends his best friend's bachelor party, unaware of an insidious agenda that plays into hunting humans.
Style:
scary, disturbing, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, murder, psychopath, gory, hotel, danger, escapades, confined, crimes, friends, survival, captivity ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
las vegas, usa, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
102K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, rough, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, slasher, manhunt, cannibalism, disfigurement, danger, chase, isolation, friendship, gory, massacre, youth ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 2000s
Place:
west virginia, virginia, usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
168K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Jigsaw has disappeared. Along with his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detective scramble to locate ...
Style:
scary, psychological, realistic, twists and turns, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, mind game, mutilation, violence, race against time, loss of child, psychopath, corpse, sadism, bomb, doctor, apprentice ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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71K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Eden Lake is a relentlessly tense and immaculately paced horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. ...
Style:
brutal, bleak, suspense, scary, bad ending ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids
Plot:
survival, torture, fear, gang, forest, camping, slasher, gory, weekend, in the woods, youth, danger ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Films like Saw
90K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and find hidden video cameras in their room. They realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, macabre ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival horror, danger, serial killer, trapped, hotel, slasher, psychological thriller, hostages, isolation, one night, estranged couple, hidden camera ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Five friends visiting their grandfather's house in the country are hunted and terrorized by a chain-saw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals.
Style:
banned film, scary, suspenseful, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
slasher, serial killer, chainsaw, gas station, hitchhiker, cannibalism, murder, massacre, friendship, psychopath, danger, woman in danger ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A yuppie couple lost in a swamp seek refuge at an isolated farmhouse only to discover they've jumped out of the frying pan into the fire.
Style:
scary, serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
psychopath, island, survival, couples, forces of nature, deadly, couple relations, confined, danger, brutality, torture, sadism ...
Time:
contemporary
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Italy, Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Alexia travels with her friend Marie to spend a couple of days with her family in their farm in the country. They arrive late and they are welcomed by Alexia's father. Late in the night, a sadistic and sick killer breaks into the farmhouse, ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, psychological, rough, suspense ...
Plot:
insanity, massacre, home invasion, gory, survival, kidnapping, psychopath, farmhouse, slasher, serial killer, chase, french ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
france, southern france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
356K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
torture, psychopath, serial killer, captivity, mind game, survival, insanity, gory, master criminal, trapped, race against time, game of death ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Desperate to help her ailing brother, a young woman agrees to compete in a deadly game of "Would You Rather," hosted by a sadistic aristocrat.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, scary, tense, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
moral dilemma, psychopath, danger, captivity, confined, deathtrap, survival, torture, invitation, threat, group of strangers, dishonesty ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
Style:
scary, brutal, suspenseful, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
slasher, serial killer, psychopath, home invasion, trap, violence, danger, extreme violence, masked man, gory, maniac, thief ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA, Chile, Canada, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A group of student activists travel from New York City to the Amazon to save the rainforest. However, once they arrive in this vast green landscape, they soon discover that they are not alone… and that no good deed goes unpunished.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, rough, suspense, bloody ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
jungle, extreme violence, survival, gory, cannibalism, confined, brutality, torture, violence, escape attempt, amazon rainforest, cult ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 80s
Place:
south america, peru, latin america, chile, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
5K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A group of attractive young people (of course) awaken to find themselves prisoners in a mysterious house with no means of escape. They are each outfitted with new accouterments--electronic devices attached to the base of their skulls--and a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, scary, rough
Plot:
torture, hitchhiker, morphine, drug dealer, brutality, sadism, trapped, psychopath, danger, deadly, gory, survival ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After dating a wonderful man, Hope comes back home, sees her daughter Jennifer and goes to sleep. She wakes-up in the woods with a psychopath...
Style:
scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
psychopath, kidnapping, survival, forest, danger, mind game, captivity, confined, family in danger, vengeance, crimes, deadly ...
Time:
contemporary
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies like Saw III
9K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Venom is a fright-filled voodoo thriller loaded with a sizzling cast of the screen's hottest young stars. Set deep in the eerie swamps of southern Louisiana - Agnes Bruckner (Murder By Numbers), Jonathan Jackson (Tuck Everlasting) and Meagan ...
Style:
scary, rough, suspense, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
voodoo, slasher, youth, swamp, danger, teenage life, supernatural, serial killer, survival, snake bite, race against time, zombie ...
Time:
contemporary, 80s
Place:
louisiana, usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a deformed chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, scary, macabre, twists and turns ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
slasher, serial killer, murder, disfigurement, cannibal, violence, psychopath, hitchhiker, chainsaw, torture, mentally unstable, killing off one by one ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
texas, usa, mexico, campus, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
During their nightly poker game a group of lowlifes are terrorized in their own convenience store by a masked killer.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, survival, voyeurism, store, isolation, danger, stalking, friends, confined, slasher, deadly ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
14%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A group of five college graduates rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted attention of the homicidal locals.
Style:
rough, dark humor, suspense, scary, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
virus, survival, danger, disease, illness, gory, drinking, in the woods, small town, plague, deadly, college ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 2000s, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.
Style:
macabre, scary, suspenseful, rough, sinister ...
Plot:
psychopath, torture, cannibalism, survival, confined, sadism, cruelty, violence, mad scientist, sadistic horror, life is a bitch, execution ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
europe, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Movies similar to Texas Chainsaw 3D
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Based on true events
Style:
suspenseful, rough, scary, brutal, disturbing ...
Plot:
slasher, brutality, murder, torture, psychopath, wilderness, stalking, crimes, friendship, maniac, sadism, death ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
76K
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
Style:
disturbing, rough, psychological, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
torture, cult, child abuse, violence, torture chamber, kidnapping, gory, torment, suffering, brutality, vengeance, afterlife ...
Time:
contemporary, year 1971
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
109K
Genre: Horror
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.
Style:
suspense, scary, gothic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, slasher, ghost town, traffic jam, deadly, wax museum, group of friends, violence, small town, woman in danger ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 21st century, contemporary, 80s
Place:
usa, new york, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Set against Sin City, Las Vegas, "Murder-Set-Pieces" tells the story of a fashion photographer whose vocation is murder - a voyeuristic nightmare of blood, sex and brutality.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, serious, scary, sexual ...
Plot:
psychopath, danger, murder, slasher, violence spree, crimes, sexual abuse, haunted by the past, strong sexual content, maniac, rape, photo shoot ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa, nevada, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
103K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution (where he was committed as a 10 year old) and he immediately returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find his baby ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, rough, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
slasher, psychopath, halloween, serial killer, strangulation, drowning, stabbing, stripper, small town, massacre, loss of friend, manhunt ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
"ChromeSkull" is the sequel to the 2009 horror hit "Laid to Rest." It brings back ChromeSkull, who barely escaped death in the first movie and is hell-bent on continuing where he left off... and forging a new path of terror and ...
Style:
rough, stylized, bleak, serious, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
slasher, danger, uninhibited rivalry, escapades, crimes, violence spree, gory, deadly, master criminal, obsession, haunted by the past, rivalry ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A group of urban researchers set about exploring an abandoned psychiatric hospital with a terrible history, but are they prepared for the horrifying, possibly supernatural secrets hidden within its crumbling walls? No sooner do they get there than ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
slasher, isolation, danger, mental institution, survival, psychopath, crimes, confined, deadly, gory, casual sex, bra removing ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Bunnyman is the story of a group of friends on their way back from a spontaneous weekend trip to Las Vegas, and while driving through the remote regions of southern California they suddenly find themselves in a sickening game of cat and mouse with a ...
Style:
realistic, scary, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Plot:
gory, survival, on the road, psychopath, deadly, captivity, confined, escapades, off the road, slasher, danger, isolation ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
south carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
67K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Germany, Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A group of friends whose leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when they, along with a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, twists and turns, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
jungle, survival, gory, friendship, self sacrifice, mercy killing, tourist, vacation, ruins, murder, death, ancient mystery ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
95K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK, Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, twists and turns, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
mind game, violence, murder, trap, secretary, captivity, gory, serial killer, goth, police investigation, death, torment ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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